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ceived offerings of condolence. But he could not
name any possible perpetrator.
“They should not have put officers in a civil
ian plane full of innocent people,” he said bitter
ly. “Their presence was not God’s will.”
“TTiey should not have put
officers in a civilian plane
full of innocent people”
— Badawi Abu Shanab
A victim’s father
He said a trip arranged by state-owned
EgyptAir that took families of the victims to the
United States to be close to the search operation
was nothing more than “propaganda.”
“What was I supposed to do there? Was this
a holiday or something? A package tour? They’re
not going to find any corpse,” Abu Shanab said.
Authorities have publicly said they have found
only one body and do not expect to find other
bodies intact. The investigation is considering all
ry slot. We coulil
d run any platB LUXOR, Egypt (AP) — Wila Abu Zeid smiles
light be theinoj- shyly in the glossy montage photo her family
r er we’ve got - ipasses out to friends and relatives who come to
; the toughest." mourn her.
Bumgardner reco:B Seagulls soar behind her over dark blue chop-
ions for 173 yard;® waters, a metaphor for the Atlantic Ocean,
wn in 11 gam. Where she perished Sunday,
ught 10 passes fo:B Abu Zeid was one of four Luxor teen-agers
tlayed in all 13g killed in the crash of EgyptAir Flight 990 as they
liege start was <•; returned from a two-week exchange program in
te, and the res! Balumore.
■ backed up Itl Samir Abu Zeid had been eagerly waiting for
his 19-year-old daughter to tell him all about her
hgh School was Jst trip to the United States,
iner as he was a!® “AH 1 want now is that they find her body and
lection after recoiBM it to me so 1 can bury her,” he said, break-
ns for 1,152 yard;Ig into sobs.
wns during hissoll What Badawi Abu Shanab wants is to find out
junior years, h what really happened to the plane when it
iter for the track: pl un 8 ec l > n to the Atlantic a half-hour after taking
ffensive coorc Pf fr° m N ew York’s Kennedy Airport,
tborne said onrM U* s son Ahmed, who would have turned 15
offense has a:Way, was or the night.
ntinuity in the pari Abu Shanab suspects foul play, especially af-
aid achieving cor ter 11 was reported that 33 Egyptian military offi-
ne, practice and c r s were amon g the 217 people on board.
d s of the pass 1 “h was planned,” Abu Shanab said as he re-
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a great player. Vt|| HANOI, Vietnam (AP) — Torrential downpours have devastated cen-
here, he does a ; tra | Vietnam, causing floods that have killed hundreds of people, the head
of a government delegation to the afflicted areas said yesterday,
ive-year roomn® The death toll was expected to increase as reports trickled in from
quarterback ai i eas where phone lines were down. Rain was still falling in inundat-
said Burngdrcy are as.
omes from his W Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Le Huy Ngo, head of
haracteristic. He amission dispatched to the area by Prime Minister Phan Van Khai, said
er takes pride in kin an interview with Vietnam Television that the death toll was in the
, and he also ii“hundreds.” He did not give an exact figure.
locking well when® Nguyen Van Me, governor of Thua Thien Hue province, said in a live
directed toward ^telephone interview with VTV that 48 people had died in his province,
dner said he including three rescuers from the Border Guard.
ire an effective pass ; He said many people have been sitting on the roofs of their houses for
ie field because oftl.two days waiting for food. Four helicopters dispatched by the govern-
oft the held. He; m ent could not reach the province.
ble to offer each ot: Ngo said rescue operations are very difficult because of continuing bad
/e criticism during:weather.
hout the fear of h: Heavy rains have dumped up to two feet of rain on the flood-prone re
gion over the past week. The storms are expected to continue the rest of
at scared to tell lithe week, the central weather forecasting station said,
ik out on the field, Vast swaths of farmland and hundreds of thousands of homes were
cared to tell me vt®'
” Bumgardner said,
looser, more relav
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possibilities for the cause of the crash: human er
ror, mechanical failure and sabotage.
Tayseer Ahmed is also looking for answers.
Her 13-year-old daughter, Jihad, and husband,
Husam — the students’ chaperone — were
among those killed.
“We were fond of Americans,” Ahmed said.
“They shouldn’t have let the passengers on the
plane if there was a technical problem.”
Ahmed and her husband were preparing to re
ceive four American exchange students at their
home in March.
She spoke over the wails of her mother-in-law,
who sat with a dozen other women on the floor
of her tiny bedroom.
“Oh God, give us patience,” the mourners
repeated in a chorus after Hayat, Jihad’s
grandmother.
“Husam, my son, I miss you so much,” Hay
at cried. With every remark, she drew more noisy
sobs from the women.
The parents of 16-year-old Sameh Fawzi left
Luxor for Cairo, 300 miles to the north, to meet
him at the airport Sunday.
They still have not returned to Luxor, intent
on staying in Cairo until his body is found and
sent to them.
Riots break out in India after
cyclone hits, kills thousands
Vietnam floods kill hundreds; government supplies food
submerged in one of the country’s poorest regions. North-south trans
port by road and rail was paralyzed.
VTV said the air force sent four transport planes and seven helicopters
to bring food supplies from Hanoi to the region.
Sixteen tons of instant noodles have been supplied, but the aircraft
only could land in Nghe An, 220 miles north of Hue and could not yet fly
into the ancient capital, which has been virtually cut off.
Submerged under 10 feet of water in some places, Hue shut its airport
Tuesday. Danang followed suit yesterday.
Telecommunications to Hue went down Tuesday afternoon, so it was
impossible to get estimates of casualties or damage.
The Vietnam Red Cross said it planned to issue a national appeal for
help Thursday and that a request for international aid could follow. Some
$30,000 already has been sent to buy food, medicine, clothing and oth
er supplies in seven affected provinces.
Thirteen people were killed by flooding in Quang Nam province as of
late Tuesday afternoon, said Le Van Thu of the provincial flood and storm
control committee, adding that the death toll could rise as more reports
come in from outlying districts.
Thu said 150,000 houses were submerged, along with thousands of
acres of rice.
“Water is everywhere and still rising,” he said.
FARADWIP, India (AP) — An
gry mobs looted aid trucks,
robbed desperate survivors and
fought over food in cyclone-rav
aged eastern India on yesterday.
Officials used bulldozers to col
lect hundreds of bodies.
In rice fields that have become
lakes and along roads turned into
rivers, bloated human corpses lie
rotting for mile after mile along
side the carcasses of drowned
cows, goats and pigs.
“So many thousands have died
that there is no one left to cremate
them,” Dhaneshwar Mohanty,
who fled the flooded port city of
Paradwip yesterday, said.
Five days after eastern Orissa
state was pounded by one of In
dia’s worst cyclones, officials had
no way to estimate an accurate
death toll.
A senior army officer involved
in the rescue operation told the
Associated Press on condition of
anonymity that it could reach
10,000 to 20,000'.
More than 15 million people
live in the area hit by the cyclone.
The storm was one of India’s
worst, possibly more deadly than
a cyclone in 1971 that killed
10,000 people. Officials have said
the storm has set back the state’s
economic development more than
20 years.
Furious gangs tried to stop
every passing car, bus or truck to
grab whatever was available.
Relief trucks were looted be
fore they could reach desperate
rural areas. Those stuck in the
seemingly endless traffic jams
were most vulnerable.
Near the small village of
Panikuli, Lai Dev rushed across a
road strewn with broken egg car
tons to reach an army truck, flail
ing his arms to get attention.
“They raped a woman in front
of me,” Dev cried, his face bat
tered, “and then they took every
thing away from the bus.”
Police said they have received
dozens of similar reports.
Survivors have fled Paradwip
any way they can to reach the
state capital, Bhubaneswar, 60
miles inland. But the capital had
little food and no clean water.
“They raped a
woman in front of
me, and then they
took everything
away from the
bus”
— Lai Dev
Riot victim
There were reports of food ri
ots and shops and cafes were
closed. Schools were full of
homeless people, with the over
flow sleeping in the streets
around burning tires.
The stench of rotting flesh
near water wells and canals por
tend a potential epidemic. Work
ers will need days to repair high
ways so that aid can reach the
most devastated areas.
R.P. Singh, director of the
Powergrid Corp., estimated it
would take a month to restore
normal electric power in the
state. Orissa normally consumes
1,600 megawatts a day, but was
receiving only 100 megawatts
since,the cyclone hit.
“Many of the substations in the
state are under water,” he said.
Workers could not install emer
gency power poles because “the
ground is soggy and water-laden. ”
The cyclone caused extensive
damage to the port in Paradwip,
which handles shipments of the
chromite, dolomite and man
ganese mined in the state.
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